Thursday, January 11, 2024
Credibility
How can you depend on the law to protect citizens from mass shooters when you fail to believe what citizens are telling you? This is the conundrum in Maine where a friend of a man who killed 18 people had informed Army authorities of the man's mental deterioration. It is clear in retrospect that the Army did not do enough although it did act in some ways to determine the mental state of the shooter. When the crunch time came, the Army passed it off as a drunken episode and the informer "not the most credible of our soldiers." The outcome was tragic and is being extensively investigated. But a lack of believability is at the core of the incident.
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